Is this the year the ‘selfie’ stole the Oscars?

A self-portrait of host Ellen DeGeneres and stars including Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper taken during Hollywood’s annual Academy Awards ceremony yesterday quickly

became the most shared photo ever on Twitter.

“We got an email from Twitter and we crashed and broke Twitter. We have made history,” DeGeneres said shortly after access to the social media site was disrupted due to sharing of her star-studded picture.

Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and new Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, also crowded into the picture, which was snapped by Cooper after DeGeneres mingled with stars seated in the audience.

“I’ve never tweeted before!” Streep, a three-time Oscar winner, gushed after Cooper snapped the photo with a mobile device.

DeGeneres shared the selfie via her Twitter feed .

It was shared, or retweeted, more than two million times in some two hours during the broadcast of the 86th annual Academy Awards.

The photo surpassed the record set by US President Barack Obama’s ‘Four More Years’ re-election victory shot. The picture of Obama hugging first lady Michelle Obama on election night in 2012 has been retweeted more than 780,000 times.

Other widely shared photos from Sunday’s Oscars included a DeGeneres selfie with Liza Minnelli, taken after the host made a biting comment about the appearance of the veteran actress and Broadway star.

A separate photo taken by a member of the audience showed Minnelli trying to get into DeGeneres’ now famous Oscar selfie.

'Wolf' shut out

One of the biggest losers in this year's awards is 'The Wolf of Wall Street', a movie produced by Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak's stepson Riza Aziz of Red Granite Pictures.

It went into the Oscars with five nominations, but failed to pick up a single trophy.

The following is a full list of the award winners at the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave

Actor in a Leading Role: Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Supporting Actor: Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave

Animated Feature Film: Frozen

Directing: Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity

Costume Design: Catherine Martin - The Great Gatsby

Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom

Documentary Short: The Lady in Number 6: How Music Saved My Life

Film Editing: A lfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger - Gravity

Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty - Italy

Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club

Original Score: Steven Price - Gravity

Original Song: Let It Go - Frozen

Production Design: The Great Gatsby

Animated Short Film: Mr Hublot

Live Action Short Film: Helium

Sound Editing: Gravity

Sound Mixing: Gravity

Visual Effects: Gravity

Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave

Original Screenplay: Her

- Agencies